In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body...A handbook for travellers in greece - الصفحة 34بواسطة a handbook for travellers in greece - 1872عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب

...preceptor in the Grecian language ; — that divine language, which, as Mr Gibbon finely expresses it, " gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The literary fame which Poggio afterwards acquired, is the best proof of the proficiency which he made...

...Greek: " In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." Gibbon's Rome, vol. viii, p. 162, Oxford edit. z The number of Sanscrit works described in the work...

...Sanskrit books pregpived in Nepal, are the sole authorities relied on in this paper. " capable of giving a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics." But as the Tibetan language can have no pretensions to a like power, those who know that...

...and improved by use. It has been described as a language " so musical and prolific that it could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics ;" as, " that wonderful language, which, formed amid migrations and revolutions of every...

...authorities relied on in this paper. MR. BRIAN HODGSON'S QUOTATIONS IN PROOF. 289 " capable of giving a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics." But as the Tibetan language can have no pretensions to a like power, those who know that...

...past victory, Mahomet II. * In their lowest servitude, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Gibbon's Rome. Vol. XII. p. 114. the sultan of the Turks, placed his banner before the gates, and commenced...

...subjects of the Byzantine throne were still • Evidence of Univ. Com. ii. 830—283. t Report, p. SH. possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." It cannot, perhaps, be said that the knowledge of the Greek tongue was ever entirely lost in western...

...observes Talboys, which Gibbon bestowed on the Greek, seems fully as applicable to the Sanskrit, " it is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul...sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." " The music of Sanskrit composition," adds Dr Wilson of Oxford, " must ever be inadequately represented...

...wanting, in every species of human composition, whether requiring copiousness or precision, — that ' musical and prolific ' language that gives a soul...sense, and a body ' to the abstractions of philosophy.' ' It proved, as might have been expected, equally well adapted for the flowing eloquence of a Christian...

...subjects of the Byzantine throne were still • Evidence of Univ. Com. ii, £30—233. t Report, p. S14. possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures...— of a musical and prolific language, that gives a EOU! to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." It cannot, perhaps, be...